VBscript on Linux ?

[lewtwo]

In the Microsoft World the VBscript engine is now part of ASP.Net
Microsoft ".Net 5.X" is available Linux.
That should include ASP.Net ... yes?
So does that mean that VBscript is now available on Linux ?

[JeffF73]

Microsoft is trying all they can to sneak their nastiness onto linux. I would be very very cautious of anything Microsoft on linux. IMO

[lewtwo]

Microsoft is trying all they can to sneak their nastiness onto linux. I would be very very cautious of anything Microsoft on linux. IMO

I would not say that they are not being very "sneaky" about it. I have a HP Pavilion X360 laptop. Unfortunately I have to run Windows 10 on it because of HP's total lack of support for Linux. Tier one hardware vendors failure to support Linux is more detrimental to Linux than anything Microsoft is doing (unless one believes that Microsoft and said vendors have a conspiracy).

SideBar:
Linux on Windows (2.X) is actually a VM environment with a small efficient linux kernel.
Unfortunately the base OS is still Windows with all its associated viruses and update problems.
Sort of like trying to turn Wine into Grapes

[deepakdeshp]

Microsoft is trying all they can to sneak their nastiness onto linux. I would be very very cautious of anything Microsoft on linux. IMO

I would not say that they are not being very "sneaky" about it. I have a HP Pavilion X360 laptop. Unfortunately I have to run Windows 10 on it because of HP's total lack of support for Linux. Tier one hardware vendors failure to support Linux is more detrimental to Linux than anything Microsoft is doing (unless one believes that Microsoft and said vendors have a conspiracy).

SideBar:
Linux on Windows (2.X) is actually a VM environment with a small efficient linux kernel.
Unfortunately the base OS is still Windows with all its associated viruses and update problems.
Sort of like trying to turn Wine into Grapes

I run dual boot on my new HP laptop. It wasn't easy. Mint didn't have networking drivers. Win isn't running through grub,has to be done through bios.

[lewtwo]

... It wasn't easy. ....

and therein lies the problem.

[deepakdeshp]

... It wasn't easy. ....

and therein lies the problem.

But it can be done.

[JeffF73]

Not sure I am understanding you all correctly. You talk about VBscript's on linux yet then now about how difficult it is to install linux on HP laptops? HP has no control over linux nor what you install on your system. They will never support linux only for their own profit yet I have several HP laptops running linux mint without any issues and it was easy to install just like my custom built desktop. This all sounds confusing. Making my head ache on this one.

[lewtwo]

Not sure I am understanding you all correctly. You talk about VBscript's on linux yet then now about how difficult it is to install linux on HP laptops? HP has no control over linux nor what you install on your system. They will never support linux only for their own profit yet I have several HP laptops running linux mint without any issues and it was easy to install just like my custom built desktop. This all sounds confusing. Making my head ache on this one.

My comments about the hardware were in response to to the comment about Microsoft trying to control Linux. I personally believe the lack of of support by tier one hardware manufacturers is much more detrimental.

I also have several HP machines running Linux but on the other hand I have a couple of HP computers that will not run linux due to a lack of drivers or malfunctioning drivers. The point being that Windows installs on all the said hardware in a snap. Linux is frequently a challenge and sometimes impossible. This is totally the fault of the tier one hardware manufacturers failure to support more than one operating system. Thus microsoft has a near stranglehold on the market.

"Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils", BBC, today ... https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57443598
There will be much gnashing of teeth ....

Getting back to my original question about VBscrpit. I am old and senile. All my professional life I ran and supported Microsoft Windows. When I retired I switched to Linux. In that previous life I wrote a lot of Visual Basic 6.0 programs. I happen to like Visual Basic and would like to see a version that runs on Linux. Of course VBscript is closer to Visual Basic net than actual Visual Basic but it is certainly a lot closer than Ruby, Perl, Python, .... etc.

Thus my observation and question which by the way no one bothered to address.

As to your headache .. try aspirin.

[deepakdeshp]

There is mono . You can try it.
https://www.mono-project.com/docs/about ... sualbasic/

[Petermint]

VB is a nice beer. VBscript was a simple way to write stuff when you are not relaxing in the sun with a can of the real VB.

VBscript is said to run in WINE, a Windows emulator. My experience of WINE is limited because it almost always only runs the wrong versions. There is a commercial version of Wine with more support. If it does run, tht would be the minimum overhead for running VBscript while booted into Linux.

You can run Windows in a VM then VBscript in Windows. Depending on the VM and the settings, you might need up to double the processing power. You will need to fiddle with the access controls. You might need to experiment with more than one brand of VM. If your machine has millions of extra cores and billions of extra RAM sticks, plus you have more brain cells than me and more patience than trillions of me, you might get this working.

Your data will have to be in a shared NTFS partition instead of Ext4. Backups will be different because NTFS does not have the best features of Ext4.

You might also look at https://www.freebasic.net/ and other options like https://www.purebasic.com/.

[lewtwo]

There is mono . You can try it.
https://www.mono-project.com/docs/about ... sualbasic/

Done that in the past but I was NOT impressed ....
it might have improved .... might do that on a VM.

[lewtwo]

VB is a nice beer.

VBscript is said to run in WINE, a Windows emulator. My experience of WINE is limited because it almost always only runs the wrong versions. There is a commercial version of Wine with more support. If it does run, that would be the minimum overhead for running VBscript while booted into Linux.

Yep ... one does need to have the correct vintage
Wine is something else I was NOT impressed with.

You can run Windows in a VM then VBscript in Windows. Depending on the VM and the settings, you might need up to double the processing power. You will need to fiddle with the access controls. You might need to experiment with more than one brand of VM. If your machine has millions of extra cores and billions of extra RAM sticks, plus you have more brain cells than me and more patience than trillions of me, you might get this working.

Your data will have to be in a shared NTFS partition instead of Ext4. Backups will be different because NTFS does not have the best features of Ext4.

Already do that but I put shared data on a network ftp share.
I believe I have a VM somewhere VB6 still installed on it (Real VB6 with the compiler).
However none of the *.EXE seem to run under Linux

You might also look at https://www.freebasic.net/ and other options like https://www.purebasic.com/.

Done that as well as GAMBAS.
GAMBAS was actually fairly good in the earlier versions but it grew and so did its problems.
I abandoned it several years ago.